As thousands of people continue to protest the death of George Floyd, one could reasonably expect to see anti-racism or anti-police brutality demonstrations pop up in almost any city across the United States. Vidor, Texas would not be one of them. The east Texas town of roughly 10,000 people used to be known as a “sundown town,” an all-white area that was inhospitable to Black people and had signs warning that they couldn’t be there after dark. Vidor was also a known Ku Klux Klan haven, and in 1993, the KKK marched through the town in response to the federal government bringing several Black families into the town’s public housing. If one were to make a list of U.S. towns most resistant to...
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